Your life or mine
Subtitle: how geoethics can resolve the conflict between public and private interests in xenotransplantation
By: Martine Rothblatt.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Xenografts.; Xenografts -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Organ Procurement -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Medical ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-179) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: the organ shortage is a major problem that defies conventional solutions; value: Brave new organs: the status of technological solutions to the problem; value: Look before you leap: technological risks of xenotransplantation; value: Of pigs and men: issues of speciesism and chimerism; value: The right to life: society's obligation to provide health care and xenotransplantation; value: Is xenotransplantation worth the risk?; value: A geoethical solution to the conflict between private and public interests in xenotransplantation.